Nelson McCausland MLA
(Democratic Unionist Party - Constituency: North Belfast).
A personal blog in which I comment on a wide variety of issues, political, cultural, social, historical and religious. If something takes my attention, then I may well comment on it.

Monday, 13 September 2010

New Ulster-Scots courses

Dr Carol Baraniuk is the tutor for two new courses at Stranmillis College.

The first is on The Ulster-Scots in History and it starts on Tuesday 12 October at 7.00 pm. The course runs for 8 weeks and the fee is £50 with a concessionary rate of £40.

The second course startes on Wednesday 13 October and is on Ulster's Weaver Bards: Northern Rhymers.

Dr Baraniuk, who is a member of the committee of the Ulster-Scots Language Society, gained her doctorate on the work of James Orr (1770-1816), the Bard of Ballycarry.